Card game.



T.H.BARKER.

CARD GAME. APPLICATION FILED AUGfZB, 1912.

1,056,770, Patented Mar. 25, 1913.

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athletic game with a set of cards, which are alternation to completetheplay begun with PATENT OFFICE.

UNITED STA THOMAS H. BARKER, b1? BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

' I CARD GAME.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed August 28, 1912.

Patented Mar. 25, 1913.

, Serial No. 717,529.

To all whom, it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS H. BARKER, acitizen of the United States, and aresident of Boston, in the county ofSufi'olk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Card Games, of which the following is aspecification.

1y invention relates to improvements in card games, in which certainnovel improvements are combined to produce an interesting, instructiveand entertaining game.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a game apparatus forplaying an positions of the batter or other principal player as the gamepro resses.

Latitude is allowed erein as to details,

since they may be varied or changed at will without departing from thespirit or scope of my invention. Corresponding and like parts arereferred to in the following description and indicated in all thefigures of the drawings by the same refrence characters.

In the drawings 1 represents a certain card of agroup provided with aprimary designation 2, common to-all the cards of the same group, whichdesignates a play in the game of baseball or other athletic game to beplayed, made by the batter or other principal player. Adjacent to theprimary designation 2 is an indicator 3, which indicates the batter orother principal player and which also indicates the primary desigdividedinto a plurality of groups of one or more cards, preferably varying innumber, each of which cards in a given group bears a primary designationof a play made by the batter or other principal player, and it isprovided also with a secondary desig nation of a play made by a playeror players in the athletic game on the. opposing side to the batter orother principal player.

Another object is to provide each card with a primary designation of acertain play in the athletic game common to all the cards in the samegroup, which in play is tobe qualified by a secondary designation borneby another card.

Another object is to provide each card with an indicator which indicatesthe batter or other principal player in the athletic game being playedand indicates also the primary designation on the card.

Another object is to so arrange the. primary and 'secondary'designations on the cards that there may be a possibility of theopposing player having a card with a secondary designation which willqualify the secondary which designates one of a number of differentsecondary designations cards of the same group, which designates a playmade by a player or players in the athletic game on the opposing side tothe batter or other principal player, and which qualify the play made byprincipal player as designated by the primary designation 2 of the cardmatched. Each card is provided with a portion 5 adapted to contain anillustration, advertisement or descriptive matter, which referpreferably to the play designated by the pri mary or secondarydesignation on the card.

play indicated by the primary designation. A number of cards, 6, 7, 8,9. 10, 11, 12, 13, n the accompanying drawings Figure 1 '14 and 15 inthe two series shown have vashows one of a group of a set of cards. Fig.rious primary and secondary designations,

2 shows one of the companion cards matched and alined with the cardshown in Fig. 1. Figs. 3, 4 and 5 show the remainder of a series ofcards as played in alternation to complete the play begun with the cardshown in Fig. 1, in which the player playing the first card wins thehand. Figs. 6, 7, 8, 9, l0 and 11 show a series of cards played in andshow the method of matching the cards in play. A supplemental card 16 isprovided with a diagram 17 having portions 18, 19, 20 and 21, whichindicates the several possible positions of the batter or otherprincipal ably marked and moved successively from the points 18, 19, 20and 21 enablethe players to'follow the of the batter or other principalplayer, as each card having a primary designation 2 is played and ismatched by the secondary designation 4 of another card.

the card shown in Fig. 6, in which the player playing" the first cardloses the hand. Fig. 12 shows a supplementary card having a diagram forfollowing the several possible borne by the the batter or other Iplayer, which in conjunction with pins suit-- several possiblepositions.

til) In utilizing the cards for playing an ath- 'letic game with cards,a pack of cards is provided, which is divided-into a number of groups ofcards, prefcrably varying in number, each of which cards in a group isprovided with a certain primary designation 2 common to all the cards inthe same group and a secondary designation 4 and an indicator 3. Thecards are shuttled and cut in the usual manner, after which the cardsare dealt out to each player, one card at a time, until each player hasreceived six cards. The player at the left of the dealer starts the gameby placing face up acard with some primary designation 2, with which 1tis proper to begin the play. The dealer or other opposing playerthenplays a card having some secondary designation 4, which he deemsadvantageous to play, which he places beside the first card with itsposition reversed, as shown in Figs. land 2, so that the secondarydesignation 4: is alined with and matches the primary designation 2 ofthe other card. The object of the first player is to play a card havinga primary designation 2 indicating a play in the game which will advancethe player, designated by the indicator 3, toward scoring a point in thegame, while the object of the dealer or opposing player-is to play acard to match the primary designation 2 of the first card, having asecondary designation t which will qualify the play designated by theprimary designation 2 of the first card. The cards are thus played inalternation, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, following the variousplays as far as possible in the athletic game being played, until eithera card is played having a primary designation 2 of a play which wouldpermit the batter or principal player designated by the indicator 3 inthe first card played, to score as shown in Fig. 5, when the hand iscompleted and the first player wins the hand and two points, or thecards are played for example as shown in Figs. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11,when the first player loses and fails to win a point.

If so desired, provision may be made for either player to draw from thepack a sumcient number of cards to complete a hand of six cards, in caseeither player, after several cards have been played, has no card with aproper primar or secondary designation to match the car played last.

At the conclusion of each hand the cards are again shuttled and dealt bythe next player on the opposing side to the dealer and the game proceedsuntil some player or group of players have won a certain number ofpoints, which number may be varied according to the athletic game beingplayed.

Various rules may be adopted to vary the methbd of playing the cardswithout making any change in the cards, which constitute the apparatusfor playing the game.

ose 770 Any number of persons in multiples of two may play the game andthe total number of cards or the number of cards in each group may bevaried as desired, but a pack of fiftytwo cards, exclusive or" thesupplemental card, divided into groups as specified herein, ispreferable. It so desired, the cards may be'provided with the primaryand secondary designations in positions on the cards different fromthose shown in the drawings, such for example as one designation on oneside of the card and the other designation on the other side, whilenumerical or other indicators may be substituted for the indicatorsdescribed herein.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A gameapparatus for playing baseball with cards comprising a pack of cardsdivided into a plurality of groups, each card in a group bearing aprimary designation common to all the cards in the group and designatinga play made by the batter or other principal player, and bearing also asecondary designation of a play made by a player in the game on theopposing side to the batter or other principal player, the saidsecondary designation being adapted to gualify the play designated bythe primary esignation on the companion card in play.

2. A game apparatus for playing baseball with cards comprising a pack ofcards divided into a plurality of groups, each card in a group bearing aprimary designation common to all the cards in the group and designatinga play made by the batter or other principal player, bearing also asecondary designation of a play made by a player in the game on theopposing side to the batter or other principal player and hav ing anindicator, the word Batter, locating and indicating the playing end ofeach card and designating the primary designation on the card, the saidsecondary designation being also adapted to qualify the play designatedby the primary designation on the companion card in play.

A game apparatus for playing baseball with cards comprising a pack ofcards divided into a plurality of groups, each card in a group bearing aprimary designation common to all the cards in the group and designatinga play made by the batter or other principal player, and bearing also asecondary designation of a play made by a player in the game on theopposing side to the batter or other principal player, the saidsecondary designation being adapted in play to be reversed so that thesecondary designation will be alined and matched with the primarydesignation on the companion card in play, the said secondarydesignation being i also adapted to qualify the play designated by theprimary designation on the companion card in play.

divided into a 5 common to all the cards in t e player in the game on 10the batter or other. princi secondaig1 designation io niatter or an i'esignatlon.

4. A game apparatus for-playin baseball with cards comprising a pack 0cards plurahty of groups, eachcard ma group bearing a primar designation7 group and designating a play made by the batter or other principalplayer, and bearing also a secondary designation of a play made by'a theopposingside to al player, the said eing adapted to play designated bythe primary eslgnation on the companion card in play, and having a pustration pertaining to the playing haseball with 5. The method ofcards, which consists in provlding a'pack of 0- cards divided into aplurality of groups, each card-beari'nga primary designation of aplaymade-hythe batter or other principal the opposing side to the marydesignation of each of thesaid cards the ortion adapted to containlaydesignated :by .theprimary or secondaryplayer, bearing also-a secondarydesignation of a play madeby a player in the game on batter or otherprin-- clpal player and adapted in play to qualify the play made'by thesaid batter or other having an'indicator, the word Batter, locating andindicating playing end of ing the primary. designation on the card,

that a primary designation on one" card will be alined and matched witha secondary descom 'amon card in (play.

ignation on another In testimony whereo I have afiixe principal playerand designated in the. prithe companioncard, i 4

each card -and'designatand playing the said cards in alternationsosignature, in the presence of two witnesses Witnesses? PETER J. DA RU,

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